Associations to the word «Ridicule»
Wiktionary
RIDICULE, verb. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
RIDICULE, noun. Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
RIDICULE, noun. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
RIDICULE, noun. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
RIDICULE, adjective. (obsolete) ridiculous
Dictionary definition
RIDICULE, noun. Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.
RIDICULE, noun. The act of deriding or treating with contempt.
RIDICULE, verb. Subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.